Linux Security: Auditing, Hardening and Compliance

Tag: gid

Hiding processes for other users The pseudo-filesystem /proc contains a lot of useful information for the system administrator. It also shares a lot to normal users on the system. We can change what can be seen by using the right mount options. When looking in /proc you will discover a lot of files and directories. A lot of these directories are just numbers and represent the information about a particular process ID (PID). By default, Linux systems are deployed to allow […]